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gasbag

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A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon.

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Most, however, do real work, undistracted by meetings and gasbag colleagues.In the future more people will work from home.

An effete gasbag whose life's goal, it seems, is to eat the world.

As Simpson, Cuba Gooding, Jr., captures the football star's gasbag egotism but falls short of the regal charisma that drew people to him.

And remember that oft-quoted saw of Polonius's "To thine own self be true?" It's cited out of context all the time as a pearl of genuine wisdom, but in the playing it's traditionally rendered as just one of the many aphorisms spouted by an old gasbag.

Afterward, he was deemed "a clownish gasbag" and "a human I.E.D.," to cite two phrases from this week's cover story on him in New York magazine.

He made this show of fealty to a professional gasbag before he even revealed it to his conference.

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Critics praised his spare, stylish, often darkly comic prose; hurtling plots; and deliciously strange characters, among them a gasbag-like flying octopus.

There certainly is some truth to that claim: the gasbags (Limbaugh, Palin et al) emit more heat and fire but burn out more easily, while simply by virtue of institutional rules he played a more active legislative role in the past two years than did John Boehner.

And as if all that were not enough, Sir Nicholas Stern's big report on climate change, published by the British government in October, has forced greenhouse gasbags to master another bit of esoterica: the Greek alphabet.Actually, just two letters will do: delta and eta.

Try saying it to the trivial-minded gasbags and laddish swindlers who govern us, who run down our institutions, fondle small boys, lie about what they know, think destiny is five thousand smackers a day and a motor yacht, and don't know when it's time to quit.

So, if Phillips is at times annoying in his linguistic capering, that's his answer to the gasbags of yesteryear.

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